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Empty Mirror 25th Anniversary

Empty Mirror celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 31, 2025! While we are currently on hiatus, we invite you to enjoy a quarter century of writing and art in our archives.

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On Literature

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

Courtney Zoffness interview - Brian DiNuzzo

Talking writing with award-winning author Courtney Zoffness

Courtney Zoffness and Brian DiNuzzo

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

digital collage - D Enck

What to Wake Up For, by Todd Clouser

Todd Clouser

last reading (detail) - JC Osthoorn

eye the beholder

JC Olsthoorn

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jerry Kamstra Weed, reviewed

On the Dangerous Edge of Things: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac Before the Jazz: a review of “The Haunted Life”

Jim Cherry

Ted Joans Lives!

Ted Joans Lives! A Tribute

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Horse Latitudes by Chris Wilson

Book Review – Horse Latitudes by Chris Wilson

Denise Enck

alphabets (detail) - ji kleinberg

Eight found-word collage poems by J.I. Kleinberg

J. I. Kleinberg

More Art

Essays

White Jesus -- Todd Clouser

White Jesus – A reflection on summer camp and Charlottesville

Todd Clouser

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

More Essays

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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